Ok so that’s 17 players with a 2014 tab of 150 million. if the Yankees want to stay under 189 million that means they need to sign 8 more players with 39 million dollars. Doing some quick math that’s about 4.8 million per player.

This has to mean that Robinson Cano is going to be let go unless they really want to fill in the roster with journeyman players or bargain basement fill ins. If they give Cano 23 million a year that would leave 16 million for 7 players meaning you are scraping the bottom of the barrel to sign any live body that has some idea how to play baseball.

Letting go of Cano could give them the option to sign Carlos Beltran, he would fit right in with the old players on the team. If they let go of Cano they could also potentially resignCurtis Granderson.

Well either way it appears that Brian Cashman and the Steinbrenner family have a lot of work to do. They went ahead and threw caution to the wind yet again in signing a 30+ year old player to a long term contract of 7 years. They have a ton of money invested in players that will be way past their prime when the contract ends. When will teams learn?